The past few years have thrown businesses into chaos. Millions are still working fully from home, while many others are picking up their commutes in fits and starts. A majority of people whose jobs could be done remotely were still mostly out of the office as of earlier this year, according to Pew Research Center data.
“People will try a lot of titles,” O’Donnell added. “Some will fail because they’ll be too far out there. But ultimately you’ll see a lot of shifts.” Here’s a glimpse of some of the new jobs arising from upheaval in the office, especially in tech and other companies that have embraced remote work.Atlassian is a company that makes collaboration software, so when the company went remote in 2020, its leaders felt the pressure to keep the engines of collaboration running smoothly. Six months ago the company hired a “head of team anywhere,” a title nodding to the company’s stock ticker which is TEAM.
Silver’s day-to-day endeavours run the gamut. Every afternoon at 1.37 pm, she helps organise online programmes for the staff, whether an interview with Novak Djokovic or a talk with an employee about homemade hot sauce. She sends out a staff newsletter called Heartbeat, and also leads “courageous conversations” where employees talk about challenging events in the news.
Their reasoning behind the roles, though, can sound more grandiose: “If you had a skyscraper, you would no doubt have someone in charge of making sure that physical building worked well,” said Darren Murph, who serves as GitLab’s head of remote.